Comments on: What Browser Do You Use?

By: pcgamez

pcgamez — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:21:43 +0000

Firefox all the way. Chris, those stats are probably taking into account a lot of 1-time visitors as opposed to proper users of the site.

Tried Firefox 3 – Its great. Can’t wait for the final.

By: Fr. Ignatius

Fr. Ignatius — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:04:09 +0000

I use Safari, but I use Firefox when a window does not show up correctly (which is fewer and fewer with each update from Apple).

One person asked how the site looks on Safari. Well, it looks nice.

Unworthy Servant of God,

Ignatius – priestmonk

By: Chris Leckness

Chris Leckness — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:13:54 +0000

There are a lot of surprises really…

According to Google Analytics, these are the browsers used to visit.

Mobilitysite.com
IE – 52%
FF – 39%
Safari – 4%
Opera – 3%

Aximsite.com
IE – 54%
FF – 40%
Safari – .5%
Opera – 4%

By: doogald

doogald — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:47:28 +0000

I have to say that I am shocked to see Safari at 15%. I suppose that some of that is iPhone, but 15% is about two to three times what I would have expected to see. Apple is obviously making inroads these days.

Of course I am sure that you have webstats showing browser and OS percentages.

By: doogald

doogald — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:24:42 +0000

It looks fine to me. Though I suppose that I ought to open it in FF to see it there first…

Just checked. It looks the same in Safari as it does in FF. The javascript menus are all working fine.

When I tried to answer this poll on the front page, it never responded, but when I opened the permalink it did work. That could just have been an issue at the time, however.

By: Chris Leckness

Chris Leckness — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:48:09 +0000

Doog! How does this new layout render in safari for you? I am looking into this for a reader that said it wasn’t so hot.

By: doogald

doogald — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:04:38 +0000

I use Safari most of the time these days. I used to use FF all of the time, but I kept having issues and found that Safari was faster and more stable (with most sites). I keep Camino around for those sites that do not work with Safari nicely, plus I have FF 3 beta 4 installed (and I do have IE on the Parallels XP install if I need it.)

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:06:45 +0000

I probably use Firefox 75% of the time and IE 25%. I’ve used Opera on my desktop, but don’t really like it much – it seems slow to me.

On my pocket pc, I probably use Opera 75% and IE 25%.

By: Stephen S Schmidt

Stephen S Schmidt — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:17:45 +0000

At home I use Firefox. At work, I am switching between FF for U3 & Opera for U3. On my Tilt, I use opera mini.

I’m thinking I like the Opera suite, but just can’t get past FF/TB+lightning.

By: gasusan2005

gasusan2005 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:45:49 +0000

Functionality of firefox works for me..I use it on XP and Vista with no problems… and add ons…some must haves that I can’t live without (I love Foxmarks)

I’m glad to see so many Firefox users…maybe “firefox posts” aren’t as OT as was thought ….

By: Fr. Ignatius

Fr. Ignatius — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:33:06 +0000

I have been trying to vote for Safari (for that is what I use), but the “loading” keeps going around and around. After about 10 – 15 minutes, I got tired of it and decided the poll wasn’t that important. The problem then is, is the poll accurate if Safari is not being tallied in the poll.

Unworthy Servant of God,

Ignatius – priestmonk

By: tjasko (Taylor)

tjasko (Taylor) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:04:27 +0000

You know, I’m really glad this was started on this site. There is a big frustration on which browser to use. I have used IE, FF, Safari, and Opera. I have to say all of them are great browsers, but I really like Firefox the best. It has fast downloading speeds, it looks really good, and to sum it all up, it works on every OS created. Actually, I’m in Linux now, and the only browser that I like is Firefox… But hey, I use Firefox while I’m in Vista/XP. I tried it out for a day, and I never went back to any other browser. I’m not saying that the others are bad, it’s just the functionality of them. Firefox suits me best… I see no formating issue with Firefox. I even tried to convert some of my friends over to Firefox, it doesn’t seem that they will budge. But, you can use what ever that suits you. If Microsoft made IE for Linux, I would try it… But, I highly doubt that will ever happen… Just my thoughts… It’s funny, now I’m using Mozilla Thunderbird too. Chris L., you should make a poll on what e-mail client people use… That would be interesting… I wonder how many people are using Outlook or Windows Mail (Vista)….

Taylor

By: Chris Leckness

Chris Leckness — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:08:30 +0000

Fred, Check now. I think I was fixing that issue as you posted :)

I use a combo of IE and Firefox now. I have been pretty set on IE for the longest, but a skype plugin was crashing IE7 a bunch and it was frustrating me so bad I started using FF. Now that I have indefied this Skype plug in as the culprit, I am using IE more again. But, since trying FF for that time, I personally see it 1/2 dozen one way, 6 the other.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:02:04 +0000

It’s really not true anymore that you have to use IE instead of FF. The only exceptions that have caught me lately are Windows Update and the NCAA March Madness On Demand site. “I can’t use Firefox because it doesn’t work at my bank” was a valid excuse a year ago, but not now.

There is a Safari issue on Vista, but not a huge one – here’s a screenshot link.

By: c1oudrs

c1oudrs — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:14:24 +0000

Opera 8.65 for Windows Mobile (2211) tweaked to show desktop pc,–can’t sse the results/may be reporting issues also. :)

I’ve been doing over 90% of my browsing with a windows mobile device for months on an athena. Including visiting mobility site every day. I download books, music, do email, and shop over a dozen one-day deal sites.